Sentences with phrase «cocaine addict in»

This 8:1 decision the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a Human Rights Tribunal decision that a cocaine addict in a safety - sensitive job, who was fired for violating the employer's policy by failing to report his addiction and then being involved in an accident, was not fired (on the facts of the particular case) because of his disability but rather because he violated the policy under circumstances where it was entirely within his capacity to comply with it.

If I'm not mistaken, it was just after that event that we baptized a former cocaine addict in the hot tub on our deck.

Not exact matches

The treaty, which is still in effect, requires all countries part of the treaty to «prevent and combat» drugs and drug addicts and to enforce punishment against the unauthorized cultivation, production or possession of opium, coca (and its derivative cocaine), marijuana and other illegal substances.

«What they're saying is that when it comes to debt and to the prospects for future debt, the U.S. is no «clean dirty shirt,»» before colorfully continuing «The U.S., in fact, is a serial offender, an addict whose habit extends beyond weed or cocaine and who frequently pleasures itself with budgetary crystal meth.

Severely addicted humans may in some ways resemble those experimental monkeys who will starve themselves to death if supplied with, unlimited cocaine, but the vast majority of users are not in such danger (and alcoholic humans also will drink themselves to death)

«Over time, the effect on the reward centre in the brain is similar to what makes drug addicts go back for another line of cocaine.»

Of course, a child born to a responsible mother in her 60s will get a better start in life than the child of an 18 - year - old crack cocaine addict.

In 1983 he spent a month in drug rehab after having been addicted to cocaine for four yearIn 1983 he spent a month in drug rehab after having been addicted to cocaine for four yearin drug rehab after having been addicted to cocaine for four years.

Instead, he turned to his mind guru, former Dallas Cowboy linebacker Thomas (Hollywood) Henderson, a former cocaine addict and a drug and alcohol counselor whom Daly met when he was in rehab last year.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

The Harrison Act did not recognize addiction as a treatable condition and therefore the therapeutic use of cocaine, heroin or morphine to such individuals was outlawed — leading the Journal of American Medicine to remark,» [the addict] is denied the medical care he urgently needs, open, above - board sources from which he formerly obtained his drug supply are closed to him, and he is driven to the underworld where he can get his drug, but of course, surreptitiously and in violation of the law.»

But I observed in those first images of cocaine addicts that blood flow in their brains was very decreased.

The compound, already proven safe for humans, is undergoing further animal testing in preparation for possible clinical trials in cocaine addicts, the researchers say.

It turns out that if someone is actively craving cocaine, or if you expose an addict to stimuli that remind the addict of cocaine and activate the craving, what you are doing is increasing activity in an area of the prefrontal cortex called the orbitofrontal cortex.

It was very striking: We found we could replicate what happens in the prefrontal areas and the D2 receptors with cocaine also with alcohol, and then we replicated it in methamphetamine - addicted individuals, and then we replicated it in individuals who come from families where alcoholism is very prevalent.

Their team blocked neurogenesis in the hippocampus — a seat of memory — with targeted irradiation, and then tested the rats for their ability to become addicted to cocaine.

In animal studies this sharply reduces cravings and halts addicted animals» tendency to self - administer cocaine and other habit - forming drugs.

Finally, convalescing in Paris in 2001 (where he went to be close to his parents and relatives), he read about a study of a muscle relaxant that had stifled the cravings of a cocaine addict.

Researchers have found that in the brains of cocaine - addicted rats, their craving actually increased over time.

Indeed, by examining brain tissue and slices from the cocaine - addicted rats at various stages of withdrawal and craving, Wolf and her colleagues discovered that the incubation period and the subsequent spike in craving appeared to correlate with the appearance of atypical AMPA receptors on the surface of neurons in the NAc, which could help explain cocaine craving.

Imaging studies by Nora Volkow, head of the medical department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, revealed that the brains of cocaine addicts release half as much dopamine as substance - free subjects.

Several dozen addicts housed in Daytop's gloomy brick barracks on the abandoned grounds of a state mental hospital have pledged to forgo their cocaine habit and shoot up an experimental vaccine instead.

This «priming effect,» which may be permanent, may contribute to the severity of relapse episodes in cocaine addicts.

In 2009 Kosten reported the results of a clinical trial with 115 cocaine addicts, half of whom received the vaccine.

(Previous studies have shown a dip in the number of the D2 family of dopamine receptors in cocaine - addicted monkeys.)

They found that gratification genes had been activated — the same genes that are active in cocaine and heroin addicts when their craving has been satisfied.

Node Smith, ND A very interesting study on an off - label use of a common diabetes medication for the treatment of cocaine addiction was recently published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.1 The research is specifically addressing the tendency for cocaine addicts to relapse on the drug.

As a whole, these findings extend previous research [31], [32] by showing that an intense sensation of sweetness surpasses maximal cocaine stimulation, even in drug - sensitized and - addicted users.

For individuals with a high level of dopamine receptors, they can become addicted to food just as they would get addicted to a drug (7), as modern - day junk foods create a surge of dopamine to be released in the brain (similarly to cocaine, for example).

A more recent study published in The Neuropsychopharmacology Journal found that teens that consume caffeine are more inclined to be addicted to drugs like cocaine as adults.

In another study performed at the University of Biological Medicine, Dr. Malcolm Freehand and his team fed mice a strict diet of cocaine making sure they got thoroughly addicted.

«I was the worst drug addict»: Stevie Nicks recalls her cocaine habit and discusses dating after 60 in Rolling Stone.

In 1987, he landed plum roles in two films that capitalized on the Brat Pack phenomenon, James Toback's The Pick - Up Artist, (opposite Molly Ringwald), and Less Than Zero, for which he won acclaim playing cocaine addict Julian Wells.Through it all, Downey cultivated an enviable instinct for role (and script) selectioIn 1987, he landed plum roles in two films that capitalized on the Brat Pack phenomenon, James Toback's The Pick - Up Artist, (opposite Molly Ringwald), and Less Than Zero, for which he won acclaim playing cocaine addict Julian Wells.Through it all, Downey cultivated an enviable instinct for role (and script) selectioin two films that capitalized on the Brat Pack phenomenon, James Toback's The Pick - Up Artist, (opposite Molly Ringwald), and Less Than Zero, for which he won acclaim playing cocaine addict Julian Wells.Through it all, Downey cultivated an enviable instinct for role (and script) selection.

Eventually, Yuri's secrecy and tyrannical control unravel as his business collides with his trophy wife (Bridget Moynahan), cocaine - addicted brother (Jared Leto) and a dogged ATF agent (Ethan Hawke, in a rare less - is - more moment).

At the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York, ambulance drivers get kickbacks for delivering patients, women regularly die from routine pregnancy complications and the chief of surgery's a strung - out cocaine addict who refuses to allow his black deputy to...

It is hard not to notice that specific scenes in Whiplash could be pulled straight out of a «recovering alcoholic or cocaine addict» movie.

The book is right in the usual Welsh wheelhouse, both lurid and darkly hilarious, as it follows the adventures of Bruce Robertson, a sex - obsessed, cocaine - addicted, bigoted Scottish police officer who is supposed to be investigating a murder but gets sidetracked by his own peculiarities, worries and hangups ranging from the pranks he pulls on his co-workers to his various sexual conquests.

The moment the wedding's done, Eddie discovers a variety of turn - offs regarding his new bride: she has bad musical tastes, has no income at all, is very strange in bed, and was recently a cocaine addict.

«The Knick» is directed by Steven Soderbergh and features Clive Owen as the antihero, a cocaine - addicted surgeon who operates in seedy, late - Victorian New York.

I was shocked and dismayed to find that so many of the young men I grew up with had succumbed to the crack cocaine trade and were either addicted to it or selling it, died or were killed for it, or were in jail because of it.

For example, The A1 allele of the dopamine receptor gene DRD2 is more common in people addicted to alcohol or cocaine.

But he's also a pretty decent guy deep down who works the streets with expertise, and readers will be fascinated by the day - in - the - life perspective of an unrepentant cocaine addict.

He was allegedly addicted to cocaine and alcohol in the past.

By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer In a story that shows the importance of using overlapping tools to do criminal background checks, a jury recently ruled that negligence by the Housing Authority in a North Carolina city led to an elderly woman's death at the hands of her crack cocaine addicted neighbor in 200In a story that shows the importance of using overlapping tools to do criminal background checks, a jury recently ruled that negligence by the Housing Authority in a North Carolina city led to an elderly woman's death at the hands of her crack cocaine addicted neighbor in 200in a North Carolina city led to an elderly woman's death at the hands of her crack cocaine addicted neighbor in 200in 2007.

In the prime of my career, as a 747 pilot, I became addicted to alcohol and cocaine.

In one center we visit, half the boys are addicted to crack cocaine.